Improvement in footstools



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Patented Dec. 29,1874.`

Nal-58,250'.

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IMPRCVEMENT IN FOOTSTQOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,250, dated December 29, 1874; application tiled April 1, 1874.

To all whom/t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH H. CROOKER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and. valuable Improvement in Footstools, of which the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact specication:

In this invention the support for the feet is suspended between two uprights, and is capable of being raised or lowered at pleasure, re-

maining, however, perfectlyelirm and immovable in any position.

The invention, which consists of an arrangement for raisin g, lowering, and holding in place the said foot-support, is described in detail below.

In the accompanying illustrations, Figure 1 is an. elevation of a footstool embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the disk. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a a are two uprights, kept together at the bottom by the rounds or stretchers b b. c is the support for the feet, suspended between the uprights a a by means of the cord, chain, or equivalent, d, which is suspended or hung in grooves e', cut in the inner sides ot' the upsupport c. Metallic slides e e, attached to the support c, and sliding in the grooves c', prevent the said support from tipping. fj' are brass plates screwed to the inner sides ot' the uprights c a, and having openings h, (see Fig. 4,) through which the stretcher or round lo passes. One

or both of the openings h are made somewhat elongated, so as to allow the stretcher k to be slightly lifted. g is a pin, Xed in one of the plates f, made flush with its surface, and pro- `jecting into an upright, a. m is a disk-wheel, having'notches m at intervals around its rim, and rotating with the round k. n is the spindie, around which the cord d winds, and o is a rotating disk.

In practical operation, my footstool works as follows: When the foot-support c is to be raised or lowered, the end of the stretcher k nearest the pin gis raised a little in the opening h, assuming the position represented in Fig. 4.. The said stretcher is then rotated in either direction, and the cord d winds or unwinds. When the support c has arrived at the desired position, the stretcher k is simply released, and it drops into its former position in the opening h, the disk m m drops upon the pin g, and the said pin slips into the first notch m', and the support c is thus held in place.

The parts a b c lc may be made very ornamental, thus producing a handsome article of furniture.

The above-described arrangement for raising, depressing', and retaining in place the footstool c is simple, not expensive, and easily operated, as any child who can rotate the stretcher k can adjust the stool at will.

Having thus fully described my invention, I do not claim as new an adjustable foot-rest suspended between two uprights; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the stretcher k and spindles n with the plates f, pin g, and wheel m mf, substantially as and for the purposes described.

ELIJAH H. CROOKER.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, E. H. OBEE. 

